PERIOD: England, 17th century | SOURCE:
The
Whole Duty of a Woman: Or a Guide to the Female Sex, 1696 | CLASS:
Authentic

DESCRIPTION: A medicinal broth made of chicken,
fruit, roots, & herbs

To make China Broth.

Take an ounce of China-root, thinly sliced, steep it twelve hours,
in two quarts of fair water, on moderate Embers, and then put a pritty
big Cock-chicken into it, put Maiden hair, and Wood-sorrel, beaten with
Raisins, Currans, and Dates into the Belly, tying up the vent, add a handful
of French Barley well bruised, and when the chiken is boyled almost to
a Jelly, strain out the Broth, if there wants more water, you may add more
in the boyling. This is an excellent stregthener restorer of Nature, when
decay'd or wasted.